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Home 🌿 Marijuana Politics 🌿 Tewkesbury man Lee Hicks given suspended jail sentence for growing cannabis 🌿Tewkesbury man Lee Hicks given suspended jail sentence for growing cannabis
Police who went to search Lee Hicks' home for cannabis were beaten to it by someone else, a court heard.
Hicks, 40, had been growing the drug in a fortified outbuilding at his home in Sallis Close, Northway, Tewkesbury, and police went straight there to search after arresting him at another address.
But by the time they got there someone had broken down a reinforced outer door, unlocked the inner door and removed practically all trace of the growing plants.
All police found were some seeds and leaves, said prosecutor David Maunder at Gloucester Crown Court.
Despite the limited evidence found, however, Hicks pleaded guilty to a charge of producing a controlled drug between February 16 and March 17 this year.
Hicks, who runs two shops selling hydroponic gardening equipment - the kind used to cultivate cannabis - had been due to stand jury trial on that and other drug...
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